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March 1, 2018

Advisory Team Meeting 

Thank you to all ReCAST partners for attending the Advisory Team meeting on Feb. 27. The time was spent updating partners on the four buckets the ReCAST work has been divided into. Those included:

  • Healing and Training 
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Trauma Healing Services
  • Youth Leadership Development. 


Advisory team members offered valuable feedback for the current progress of this work as well as the planned work in each bucket. Our next advisory team meeting will be on April 17th from 10 a.m.-noon. Please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov with questions.


Next Capacity Building Institute Training

The next training in the Capacity Building Institute is this Saturday, Mar. 3, 2018. This is the rescheduled session from last Saturday.

Creating Sacred Healing: Mar. 3, noon-4 p.m. - 3700 Bryant Ave
We will create a space to share stories of resiliency, tell stories of ancestral healing mechanisms and share breathing techniques that will transform the body and empower the spirit to heal from the toxic impact of stress and trauma. We will also examine how long-term unrelated stress manifests itself in the body as disease.

More information


Trauma Trainings Available Online

A ReCAST Minneapolis partner, Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) offered training to City staff around immigrant and refugee trauma in 2017. Ensuring that City staff understand the trauma that is happening across the City will give them the tools and strategies to better serve those communities. 

CLUES allowed us to film these courses and offer them as packaged video courses. These courses are now available for City employees and community members! There are 6 courses in the series. To view a course, simply click on the hyperlink associated with the class. NOTE: These courses are 1-2 hours in length. Allow ample time to complete each course. 

Please feel free to share these videos with your networks!

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Psychological First Aid Training for City Staff

Psychological First Aid training is being offered to first point of contact staff and leaders. This training is meant for a variety of staff including housing inspectors, community engagement specialists, 911 and 311 operators and others. Cultural, somatic and psychological first aid is an evidence-based, trauma-informed approach built on the idea of human resilience.

Goals and outcomes include:

  • Better City responsiveness when navigating trauma and civil restlessness issues.
  • Better City responsiveness to communities of color as it relates to trauma and civil unrest.
  • Better educational knowledge relating to health, productivity and quality of life for employees.

New dates for City employees:

  • Wed.-Thurs., Apr. 25-26 from 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
    University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center
    2001 Plymouth Ave. N. 

City employees can register in COMET.

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Public Policy Forum on Unemployment Among Young Black Men

In this public policy forum, we'll hear from field experts on the challenge of unemployment and underemployment of young black men, possible solutions and its contributing factors including:

  • Educational attainment
  • Mass incarceration
  • Living in economically under-resourced areas
  • Perception and racial bias


March 8, 2018, 2-5 p.m. at the Minneapolis Urban League

Register here

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International Women's Day: Promoting and Supporting Women of African Descent

Isuroon and the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy at the Humprey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota invite you to a symposium centered on women of African descent in celebration of International Women's Day. This daylong event will address all aspects of lives of women of African Descent, featuring keynote addresses and panels on economics, health, and other areas.

  • March 8, 2018, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
    Humphrey School of Public Affairs - Cowles Auditorium, 301 19th Ave S


Register here!

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Youth Justice Leadership Institute Accepting Applications

The National Juvenile Justice Network is now accepting applications to the 2018-19 Youth Leadership Institute. The Institute is a robust, year-long fellowship program that seeks to clear a broad path for people of color to lead justice system reform. The program is geared towards individuals of color working as professionals in the juvenile justice field, who may also be young adults who are system survivors themselves, or a family members of someone in the system.

More information

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U of MN's Annual Health Disparities Round Table

Come celebrate National Public Health Week at the Annual Health Disparities Round Table at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

  • April 6, 2018, 9:30 a.m.-noon
    Coffman Memorial Union Theater - 300 Washington Ave SE


This event is free and open to the public. Register here!

More information

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Equity and Access Series

Stanton Adams Diversity Institute and Washburn Center for Children have partnered together for a 3-part Equity & Access Series. The series will encourage dialogue to better understand the systemic issues hindering underrepresented groups. Save the dates for Part 2 and 3 of the Equity and Access Series!

Part 2

  • Racial Equity & The Talent Shortage featuring Leveled Leader Consulting
    Apr. 19, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Washburn Center for Children (1100 Glenwood Ave)
    By applying a holistic and culturally-authentic approach, you can attract, develop and retain candidates who can contribute diverse perspectives. In this interactive, solution-oriented workshop, participants will understand how to re-design their talent outreach strategies to reach multicultural talent.
    Register

Part 3

  • Building Sustainable Communities featuring Elizer Darris
    July 19, 2018, 1:30-4:30 p.m. - Washburn Center for Children (1100 Glenwood Ave)
    Thriving communities arise out of the fundamental truth that all individuals, regardless of income or social status, deserve a safe place to live, access to healthcare and education. Participants will learn the key components of thriving communities. By addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and gender in our communities, we can begin taking intentional strides towards the multicultural Minnesota we can all be proud of.
    Register


To learn more, visit www.stantonadams.com/diversity-instiute


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About ReCAST Minneapolis

The Resilience in Communities After Stress & Trauma (ReCAST) Minneapolis Program is funded through a multi-year grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). ReCAST Minneapolis is intended to assist high-risk youth and families, and promote resilience and equity in communities that have recently faced civil unrest through the implementation of evidence-based violence prevention and community youth engagement programs, as well as linkages to trauma-informed behavioral health services. SAMHSA created the ReCAST Program to support communities that have lived through demonstrations of mass protest in response to police-involved shootings of unarmed African-American males. 

For more information, please email ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov.

This update was developed [in part] under grant number 1H79SM063520-01 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The views, policies, and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of SAMHSA or HHS. 


For reasonable accommodations or alternative formats please contact ReCASTMinneapolisInfo@minneapolismn.gov or
by phone: 612-673-2958. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can use a relay service to call 311 at 612-673-3000. 

TTY users can call 612-673-2157 or 612-673-2626.

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